Two US swimmers who were with Ryan Lochte when he claimed to be robbed early last Sunday morning were briefly detained by Brazilian authorities. Team USA members Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were stopped as they tried to board a flight out of the country on Wednesday. Their team-mate James Feigen had also been communicating with local authorities. “Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were detained Wednesday night shortly before their flight was scheduled to depart from Rio,” Sandusky said in a statement. Lochte said he and his team-mates initially didn’t tell USOC officials about the robbery “because we were afraid we’d get in trouble.”

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2016 01:50 UTC